The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-02-20
John Adams Convicted on
Flimsy Evidence.
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ments, trials and sentences. In the
case against John Adams, of Centre
vile, Davis County, the Prosecuting
Attorney elected the first of the four
counts in the indictment found against
the defendant, and the even numbers
being disposed of, the following jurors
we're called to the box and sworn:
Louis Hyams, J.F. Lubbock,
! VIM. Larr4bie. Joseph Durkin,
A. J. Stanchfeld, D. B. Slower,
| James Ashman, ID. ID. bowers,
n K. Penney, j. H. Edgerly,
| Parker Norton, VIM Whitehill.
Mr.. Dickson then requested that all
the witnesses, save the one testifying,
be excluded from the Court Room. and
his desire was gratiied.
Miss ANNE ADAMS a daughter of the
defendant, was the first witness called
by Mr.. Dickson. She said: I live at
Centreville, Davis County; my mothers
name is Marietta; father has lived at
our house since 1888; he has not slept
there every night, because sometimes
he was required to sleep at the store;
know Lizzie Cleveland; she is about 26
or 81 years of age; have not seen her
since November last; Henry Cleveland
lives across the block from tather's;
Lizzie Cleveland has two children, the
youngest about Is months old; I told
the Grand Jury that it was about 2
years old, but that was not sure;
have learned since, from Margaret
Cleveland, think; 1 do not know in
what month it was born; it could walk
10 b,,k
not talk; do not know how long it has |
walked; Lizzie Cleveland lived with |
her father Il suppose father stopped there |
some of the time, | don't know; my |
grandmother is not home; she went to |
Horace EIdredge's at Bountiful; Lizzie's !
father; Henry Cleveland, was home two |
or three days ago; don't remember
father and mother speaking of their
marriage; never heard him introduce
her as his wife; suppose they are
married; they treat each other as hus-
band and wife; Lizzie Cleveland has
visited mothers house never heard her
children call my father papa; my father
called them by their given names.
MRS. MARGARET CLEVELAND was the
next one called. The substance of her
testimony was as follows: My hus-
bands name is Henry; my daughter
Lizzie is %, and her two children, the
eldest s. and the youngest not quite 2;
told the Grand Jury the youngest was
between l and 2; l do not know the
month of its birth; both children were
born in my house; l don't know who
the father is; 1 don t know that Lizzie is
married; she never told me; l never
asked her; | never concerned myself
about it; that was my business; cared |
about it; never tried to satisfy myself
about it.
Mr.. DIoKsoN-Did you ever hear a
rumor of it?
Objected to by defense; objection
overruled.
Witness, continuing never heard
IL stated in my family that she was
married to the defendant; never asked |
him about it; he has been to my house
four or i've times during the last thirty
years; | don't know where Lizzie is
now; she left home three or four |
months ago; l think she left the day
before the defendant was arrested she |
did not leave because she heard the de- |
PENDANT was going to be arrested she |
went to Mrs. Stoddard's at Uintah; l |
have not seen her since; do not know |
where she is now; she went to attend to
her sick sister.
IL. a.
a sister of Lizzie Cleveland; think her |
youngest child is about two years old, |
but do not know; was not home when |
it was born; was home at the birth of |
the eldest child; don't know that the |
defendant is reputed to be Lizzie's hus-
band blast saw my sister a few months |
ago; do not know when she left; Mrs. |
Adams did not tell her to get away; she |
said the officers were around; I did not |
say what the Grand Jury minutes show,
or anything like it; Lizzie left day or |
two after Mrs. Adams came; she was
not home when the officers came; never |
have seen Lizzie and Mr. Adams in COM
pany; never heard Lizzie's children call |
the defendant papa; do not know that |
they are not regarded as Adams chill |
dren; I do not know where Lizzie is.
Mr.. Dickson-Is Lizzie's reputation |
good?
Mr.. Sheeks-I object t. that; it doesn't
affect this defendant.
Objection overruled.
Witness-Yes, her reputation is good.
MISS OLLIE CLEVELAND said-My
sister has lived at home part of the
time, and the remainder with Mrs
Adams, the defendants mother; she
left home about four months ago, two
or three days after the defendant was
arrested; her father took her away;
saw Mrs. Adams when she came to
the house and said the defendant was
arrested; she did not say lizzie as to
get out of the way; l do not know
where Lizzie is now; l do not know who
is regarded as her husband, or the
father OF her children; she is not bad
girl: have seen Mr.. Adams at moth
err house; meyer saw him pay any at
tention to Lizzie's children; never heard
them call him papa; have seen Lizzie at
the defendants mothers house; have
also seen defendant there; 1 never took
meals there or stopped over night.
DEPUTY PRATT was then brought
forward TO testify TO the fact that
at the time he had arrested the
def, ndant, the latter had told
him that be did not intend
TO give the officers or the courts any
trouble, but that be was guilty, and in
tended to plead so.
The defense had no testimony to
offer, and soon after the regular charge
had been delivered they returned "a
verdict of guilty. 20 81 (